Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. 1 Introduction: Surviving Love 1
7. 2 Love Lies: Romantic Fabrication in Contemporary Romantic Comedy 15
8. 3 'I Think I Could Fall in Love with Him': Victor/Victoria and the 'Drag' of Romantic Comedy 37
9. 4 Murphy's Romance: Romantic Love and the Everyday 57
10. 5 Something Wild: Take a Walk on the Wild Side (But Be Home before Midnight) 75
11. 6 Time Trips and Other Tropes: Peggy Sue Got Married and the Metaphysics of Romantic Comedy 93
12. 7 Working Girl: A Case Study of Achievement by Women? New Opportunities, Old Realities 111
13. 8 Love and Other Triangles: Alice and the Conventions of Romantic Comedy 129
14. 9 The Fever and the Itch: Matching Plots in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever 148
15. 10 Allison Anders's Gas Food Lodging: Independent Cinema and the New Romance 168
16. 11 Meg Ryan, Megastar 188
17. Select Bibliography 209
18. Index 216